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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] New request for Cantonese Wikipedia: vote at 29-6
From: Mark Williamson <node.ue () gmail ! com>
Date: 2005-09-06 0:40:36
Message-ID: 849f98ed05090517405c06990e () mail ! gmail ! com
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"Some dialect of English" implies that Cantonese is merely a dialect of Chinese.
Anyhow, if a Wikipedia in an English dialect were requested, and the
person organising the vote sent private e-mails to all people claiming
that to be their home dialect notifying them of the vote, those people
would most likely vote "against" the creation of such a Wikipedia.
Why should we leave the future of a Cantonese Wikipedia up to Mandarin
speakers? That would be like not only letting (which is what we're
already sort of doing by allowing non-speakers to vote), but actually
ENCOURAGING all of Serbia to vote in a referendum on Kosovar
independence, which is by no rational measure fair.
Given the current results of the vote, and the fact that a huge
portion of the people who voted are actually native Cantonese speakers
(on both sides -- in fact,
Mark
On 05/09/05, Angela <beesley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/05, Walter van Kalken <walter@vankalken.net> wrote:
>
> > I found our policy with regards to Chinese languages stranger and
> > stranger. We do not do this if we open another Germanic or Romanic
> > language pedia!
>
> It's not policy. There is no policy for creating new languages (just a
> draft one at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages>).
> I was just giving my opinion, and I feel that the relevant communities
> should be told about any language proposals, not only Sinetic ones. If
> some dialect of English were proposed, it would be very unfair to try
> to hide that from the existing English language communities within
> Wikimedia.
>
> Angela.
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